Re: Wikipedia crackpottey

Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

You may all be interested in an article at
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problems_with_Einstein%27s_general_theory_of_rel

ativity

 
 
that presents some of the ideas we hear from the crackpots here. It's
signed with a pseudonym, but I don't think it's the work of one of our
local crackpots because it's better written. It's currently under
consideration for deletion:
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Problems_with_Ei

nstein%27s_general_theory_of_relativity

Right, much of it is indeed crackpottery.
But what is worse: it obviously qualifies as 'original research',
which by itself is sufficient ground for deletion.
The author should take it to Vixra or something like that.

Finally, while it has lots of refs, it is a good example of how refs
should not be used on Wikipedia.
Many of the refs are there to argue points, not to document points.

Delete, if I had anything to vote there,

Jan